KVD is a MACHINE

[skeeter11008]

AOY is about points accumulated during the regular season and always has been. This was nothing more than a "cash cow" for ESPN's version of BASS without any regard to the history of the AOY award. I kind of threwup in my Mouth a little watching KVD jump around like he had accomplished something. There's noway he could have overcome a 300 point deficit that Skeet had built without the assist from BASS!!!! I know KVD is an awesome angler and he took advantage of the system but to jump around like he really "won" AOY was pretty disheartening. There should be an asterisk placed by the 2010 AOY. If you wanted to add two tourneys than the points should have never been altered and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

[smljaw]

Put the post season on Clear Lake and The CA Delta next year and let it play out. Change up the location and format and see what transpires. If I'm not mistaken, BASS is taking the post season right back to AL next summer! Under the current format, Skeet would have ruled and KVD would have stumbled in a Clear Lake/Delta scenario.

I feel for Skeet for losing AOY after the amazing year he had. KVD ruled the final events in AL for AOY but Skeet deserved AOY for sure, based on his performance over the entire fsihing season. Skeet was the REAL AOY IMO.

Something else to think about... Take ESPNs "coverage" with a grain of salt. Like anything on television, "the coverage" can be manipulated to reflect many things. I watched it and thought ESPN did a a great job in making Skeet look like a loser who choked big time. Granted, he lost 2 fish that would have made him AOY. But I'm sure others lost fish that never made "the coverage" on ESPN2.